Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Emotional development on Feb 11th, 2010
At the beginning of the year Big Girl was obsessed with clubs. She’s come home almost every day telling us about this club or that club that she wanted to start. She’d rush off to school so excited about asking the other kids to join with her, but invariably she’d fail to sign people up. [...]
Posted in Going Green, Sustainable on Feb 10th, 2010
The One Small Change I made last month is still rolling along, and I’m actually trying to expand my milk cap phobia to include other carton drinks such as orange juice. It was a good change, so I really needed something innovative for this month. The problem: We already do a lot for the environment. [...]
Posted in Emotional development, parenting, Vaccines on Feb 9th, 2010
This blog post is late. Should have been up this morning — I typically write the night before and schedule them to post automatically. However, my husband had his fourth surgery yesterday so I didn’t write last night. I’m glad I didn’t. This morning I made a big parenting mistake, and I’d love to hear [...]
Posted in Health, Illness, Safety, Vaccines on Feb 8th, 2010
It has taken me almost 100 posts before tacking this highly charged subject. I didn’t want anyone to think I was anti-medicine or even anti-vaccine. I’m not, but an email I got last night is forcing my hand. The email was pretty inflammatory — emails on either side of the vaccine debate usually are. The [...]
Posted in Favorite Things Friday, Siblings, Sleep, Toxins on Feb 5th, 2010
It’s been a while since I’ve written a true cool things-focused Favorite Things Friday, so I figured I’d go back to my roots. For all my new readers — and there are a bunch of you these days — Favorite Things Friday is my opportunity to write about things I have seen and liked recently. [...]
Big Girl got her American Girl Bitty Baby when she was about three. I was in the city for a girls’ weekend with three of my good friends. We went to American Girl to look around. I ended up walking out with a set of Bitty Twins. I took one, while my friend, who has [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Cool sites, Food, Shopping on Feb 3rd, 2010
Over the past 24 hours we’ve had three instances of customer service via Twitter and all I can say is WOW. First, a little background: We own a Kenmore stainless steel refrigerator. It’s about eight years old, but it’s in nice condition. About a year ago it started running all the time. We have an [...]
First off: My first two-post day! A friend just e-mailed an article to me and a few other friends. The Washington Post has a story written about some time management stats out of the University of Maryland. According to John Robinson, a researcher and time management guru, moms and dads have plenty of free time. [...]
Posted in Education on Feb 2nd, 2010
It’s probably no secret that I was not a fan of Bush — either one. And from what we know from polls, the way the election went down, world sentiment, I am not alone in my dislike of these two men and their policies. One of the things I disliked the most was the second [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Shopping on Feb 1st, 2010
Yesterday we were up in Jericho so we stopped in to Whole Foods. I’ve never been there on a Sunday. We always hit Whole Foods late on a Saturday — maybe 4 or 5 p.m., when it’s quieter and mellower. Yesterday at 1 p.m., however, it was a zoo. People everywhere. You could hardly get [...]